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[sewer-sermon]

tfw you visibly base your entire identity around One Specific Character Or Thing so that whenever it gets brought up (or left out) of a conversation you look like this pointing it out

[poryqons-art]

alright who the fuck sent my top 2 favorite pokemon to the stone age. fess up

[fornowimwinter]

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WTF????

[aegagrusscholarship]

familiarity, the lack thereof, and the only way it could have ended.

the thing is, ultrakill is a very diegetic game. near everything, from the style meter to the bottomless arsenal to the shitass graphics themselves, are explained in some way by some in-universe fact.

so, what with violence and the implication that V1 was designed to counter earthmovers

what with 7-4 and the fact that it is a culmination of this implication

i wonder. when V1 looked up at that earthmover, did it know, with whatever passes for instinct in a machine, exactly what to do? and if it did, then, how is this conveyed to the player?

diegetic as the game is, how does it engineer a situation in which the player, themselves, knows exactly what they have to do?

the biggest factor, i think, is the fact that the earthmover's health bar appears the moment you lay eyes (or camera, or whatever) on it, and it does not leave until you have finally killed this colossus.

but this factor is much more subtle than it appears at first glance. yes, big honkin' boss healthbar on screen for the entire level, what more to it. there's a good deal more, it turns out.

first off- this is the shortest leadup by far to any bossfight in the game. you slide through a single vent, and you are greeted with benjamin right out in the open. even P-1, devoid of any other hazards as it is, gives you a long trek down the spinal staircase before you reach the flesh prison. 7-4 has none of it. you enter the level, you enter the stage, and there you have it. you know exactly what you are up against right from the outset, and it's not quite a feeling of familiarity but it tells you exactly what you have to do. which is the point of this all, isn't it?

7-4 is also... not a bossfight! it is a full level! it is a full level framed as a bossfight. the health bar frames this full complete level as a bossfight.

and on one hand, this is not new news. on the other hand, i think this is the crux of it. the thing is, most bossfights are near-to-entirely new. you do not know how the boss acts. you do not know their attack patterns. you do not know their capabilities. you are learning something new. levels, though, you have done a thousand times over and so the player knows how they need to play through this bossfight in a way that is not quite present with any other boss in the game.

the content of the level is new, of course, because that's how it goes. but you know the motions. you have done this for two acts prior, you know the motions. you know exactly what to do.

also! this level does not exist in a vacuum. what i am saying is this: the rest of violence layer shifts its storytelling and its tone and even its graphics. it is something completely new in contrast to the rest of the game. 7-4, though, returns to environments and graphics more akin to what you have experienced before, bringing you back to familiarity and again knowing what to do here in a way the rest of violence hasn't let the player experience.

one more thing about this level: it plays directly into expectations. which is something that the rest of the game actually does not tend to do.

the game, at base, is just not a typical FPS. it gives you movement like a roguelite or a platformer, it takes guns you expect to know the mechanics of and goes utterly wild with how far the archetype can be changed.

in a smaller scope, here is a comparison of the earthmover and the corpse of king minos as two separate colossal bosses foreshadowed in similar ways. and i mean, minos's bossfight isn't unprecedented in other works. but i think the thing that matters here is that you are not, in fact, the underdog as is the case with so many other bosses of its ilk. riven of many voices, destiny 2, similar bossfight similar scale. you are hiding from her you are a fireteam of many you are triumphing over a dragon larger than life. project gestalt, madness project nexus, you are pulling out every stop you can to take down something so far over your head (both literally and metaphorically). corpse of king minos- V1 looks up, stands its ground, and parries his god damn fist.

and the thing is, the earthmover plays into a different expectation, but it's playing into an expectation nonetheless. you look at this thing and you climb it and you dismantle it from within, like you have done in many games prior. you know what your goal is from the moment you see that healthbar and you hook onto the conspicuously placed hookpoints that tell you- you will climb this machine; you will fight your way up to whatever its core is and you will kill it. you play through the entire level with this expectation and you get exactly this expectation. you destroy its core and it begins a countdown, and so very many games have countdowns before the collapse of whatever level you have just beaten, and you know exactly what you have to do.

i don't know. i love diegetic storytelling. i love this level.

it's just familiarity, i think. this level runs off familiarity. it gives you, the player, things and tropes and designs you are familiar with. it signals to you that you should know what to do, and it lets you do exactly what you expect to do.

if i were any more cheesy i could absolutely end this by restating something about the only way it could've ended, but uh. i am not that cheesy. this time.

aw crud now i don't know how to end this oh well goodbye then

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Faeries in other mythologies: 😊✨🎀💫🌟

Faeries in Irish and Assamese mythologies: ☠️👹💥🔪💣

[peridotporygon]

silvercandle haters get so mad for NO REASON. "oh it isn't ACTUALLY canon—" I KNOW!!!!! I KNOW!!!!! i just like the little GUYS!!!!!!!! i don't care if you hate it with every fiber of your being (fair tbh) BUT LET ME BE INSANE ABOUT THEM PLEASE!!!!

[formulalakana]

[damiannasworld]

Cafe Jazz, Pori 08.07.23

The crowd: "Pants off! Pants off!!"

Käärijä: "No, I have such a small dick I won't take them off."

🎥 siitviis

[eternal-stuck]

I like Tiffany a lot. Grips the carpets.

[sewer-sermon]

hold on this is a crazy fucking thing to put on my dash??

especially floored by this reblog. let's break this down

"being autistic isnt an excuse to drive people who are too polite to tell you to shut up insane" okay who's fucking fault is it that you're "too polite" to ask someone to stop talking. if you willingly consign yourself to an interaction and can't pony up and end it on your terms, any suffering you allegedly endure at the hands of the other person is entirely your own fault!!

you wanna talk about being adults? being an adult is having the ability to walk away or remove yourself from uncomfortable situations when the need arises. which takes practice, i understand, but if you refuse to learn that skill for the sake of niceties then no one can fucking help you because no one can read minds. communication is a TWO WAY STREET!

also stop it with this whole fucking sentiment of "you're grown, so your mental illness shouldn't be an issue anymore. man up and figure it out". it's a DISABILITY, CATHLEEN! IT FUNDAMENTALLY AFFECTS HOW YOUR BRAIN WORKS AND HOW YOU INTERACT WITH THE WORLD! SOME DISABILITIES ARE DISABLING!! THAT IS HOW THEY WORK!!! PEOPLE AREN'T PATHETIC FOR THINGS THEY LITERALLY CAN'T CONTROL!!!

the sentiment of this post could've been nice had it not been written in such a venomous way. yes, it is important for you to not let mental illness completely dominate your life, in any way you can manage or mitigate it, but some people are fucking disabled, end of story. you do not get to dictate what does and doesn't work for certain people, and brand them as simply "not trying hard enough" when your methods don't end up working out for someone else, or any methods! i cannot believe this stupid shit is being parroted within our own fucking communities. this is the kind of mindset that gets people killed.

just an added disclaimer for the piss on the poor website: i am not saying that being disabled gives you a free ride to be mean or unkind. i did not say that in any way, shape or form in this post. i am saying that disabilities are, shockingly, disabling, and sometimes things literally physically cannot fucking be helped, and you need to listen when a disabled person tells you they physically cannot get around a certain task or thing and accommodate for them instead of accusing them of using their disability as an excuse. you do not get to dictate the rules of how someone else's brain is fundamentally set up. you also don't get to blame someone else for your own inability to communicate when you are uncomfortable or would like to end a social interaction! put on your big boy pants and use your words! be clear and concise! thank you, that is all

for fucks sake i hope every last person involved with this post is deeply embarrassed with themselves. this is the absolute pinnacle of pick-me shit. absolutely shameful.

[poryqons-art]

since im getting committed to one piece heres a doodle i did 6 months ago when i watched the first ep to see how i liked it

[cupatty]

[simply-ivanka]

Brainiac above!

Russia's neighbor's, including Finland, biggest fantasy is that they can defeat Russia in a miltary conflict. Never happen. Ever!

Even with NATO, but NATO will not get involved in such a conflict as the United States will not risk World War with nuclear weapons.

Sanna Marin had talent and the potential for a level of greatness, but when she focused her attention on Ukraine and fringe issues like gay and trans rights and other matters that do not concern the majority of the population she lost her edge, her appeal and the country turned right. Marin turned her back on those people that build Finland into the country it is to focus on those small minorities that only matter to the liberal media.

Now she is a highly paid shrill for Tony Blair's joke of an advocacy group trying to get Moldova into NATO. It is people like Blair and Marin that are making a mess of the balance of the World.

They certainly do not care.

[poritora]

Master chefs and support from their partners🫶

[rottapoika]

amsterdam // pori jazz // royal opera house